

This hack is obviously smart enough to alleviate that issue by adding a simple graphic that appears in the game which serves as the new alert system. Without a Rumble Pak, the Stone of Agony was virtually useless.

This was a neat little feature of the game except for the oversight that its functionality was locked to a piece of external hardware for the N64 controller. Some fans may remember the Stone of Agony in particular, the item in the game that would alert you to the presence of a Secret Grotto. Other changes, like alterations to minigame’s rewards or allowing Young Link to wear different tunics, are a mixture between removing some of the game’s tedium and simply having the game rely less on RNG. Some of these changes are as simple as increasing the text speed up from its modest crawl, or introducing the ability to switch Z-targeting between HOLD and TOGGLE modes. Ocarina of Time Redux makes a number of major and minor changes to the base game.
